“Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?”

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.

It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.

Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.

To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.

Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?

Have the passion and the magic will happen

It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.

Positivity doesn’t just change the contents of your mind…It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

Positivity transforms us for the better.

When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.